Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.Michael Stipe R.E.M.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
Laurance Rockefeller -
Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
LaToya London -
I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
Salva Kiir Mayardit -
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Ed Koch -
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice -
The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
Pankaj Mishra
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
Francesca Annis -
I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
Edgar Mitchell -
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
H. P. Lovecraft -
The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
Garik Israelian -
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
Sam Donaldson -
I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
Kate Moss
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
Jack Kilby -
The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
Maggie Hassan -
My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
Nawal El Saadawi -
Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell -
Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
Wendy Kopp
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I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.
Elisha Cuthbert -
As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
K. A. Applegate -
I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me.
Adoniram Judson -
There's a lot to learn from the family of a soldier as much as the soldier. Actually, 'warrior' is a better word.
Ben Foster -
In my own personal experience, I've had different family members who have been held in immigration detention because they've had some sort of challenge financially, and they were making difficult decisions, and that led to their immigration detention and, eventually, deportation.
Opal Tometi -
I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.
Michael Stipe R.E.M.